Ghassan Kanafani

Ghassan Kanafani (9 April 1936-8 July 1972) was a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

Biography
Ghassan Kanafani was born on 9 April 1936 in Acre, Mandatory Palestine, United Kingdom (present-day Akka, Israel). He was exiled to Kuwait from Syria for his affiliations with George Habash, a leader of the movement for the independence of Palestine from Israel. In 1962 he had to go underground in Lebanon because he was a stateless person, and later joined the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) Marxist-Leninist Socialist/Palestinian terrorist group under Habash. In 1996 he created its Al-Hadaf newspaper, and in June 1972 he was pictured with the Japanese Red Army terrorists who carried out the Lod Airport Massacre. Kanafani claimed responsibility for the massacre on behalf of PFLP - EO, so the Mossad of Israel planned to assassinate him. He and his 17-year-old niece Lamees Najim were killed by a car bomb in Beirut, Lebanon.